Change-a-Word Onset and Rime Literacy Center - Grades K-1

With this learning center activity, partners practice building words and changing beginning sounds to make new words. This helps them see spelling patterns and makes phonics skills more automatic.

Change-a-Word includes all the 24 short vowel rimes, or phonograms, identified by Wylie and Durrell as the most common.

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Manipulate onsets and rimes to read words and create rhyming words.

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How To Play:Students build the word using the tiles then decide how the onset has changed and swap out the correct tile. They then record their words.

This type of practice in word building helps students meet grade-level expectations and prepare for standardized testing.